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Favorite Uses for Terracotta Clay Pots
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Drought Smart Plants
(IC: blogger)
For a while, these pots were everywhere; you would even buy your plants in them, about a hundred years ago. Since the development of plastic, now all you get are green plastic pots with geraniums or succulents in.
I really like the orange clay pots for several reasons; they are heavy enough to hold up under the weight of a big overgrown succulent plant, even when the soil is bone dry (which is recommended for many succulent plants) and they are porous so the roots can have some air exchange.
Here are some ways that I use terracotta clay pots in my garden...
I really like the orange clay pots for several reasons; they are heavy enough to hold up under the weight of a big overgrown succulent plant, even when the soil is bone dry (which is recommended for many succulent plants) and they are porous so the roots can have some air exchange.
Here are some ways that I use terracotta clay pots in my garden...
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Published August 7th, 2013 12:09 PM
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Drought Smart Plants on Aug 08, 2013Thanks @Catherine, I'll continue to plant it up every year until it falls apart completely, and then it will be used for...a fairy garden, maybe?
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Sue Laswell on Jun 20, 2016Thanks, you just gave me an idea of where to put some new succulents I purchased over the weekend!
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